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As Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 74, “The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.”

With few exceptions, countries in which the US-educated economic technocracy gained the upper hand performed worse than they did prior to the 1980's.

The good news is that most of Europe is in the former category; the bad news is that the exceptions include two very large and powerful countries.

Very few among them (notable exceptions including Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller) raised alarm bells about the crisis to come.

The only exceptions seem to be relatively egalitarian and highly homogeneous nation-states such as South Korea, where there are no obvious social, ideological, ethnic, or linguistic divisions for autocrats of either kind – illiberal or undemocratic – to exploit.

China and Russia today are no exceptions.

They compete, expand, mature, and eventually, with few exceptions, fade into obscurity.

With few exceptions, Wall Street economists try to give as upbeat an interpretation as the data will allow: they want their clients to buy stocks, and gloom-and-doom forecasts do little to sell them.

There are no exceptions to this, other than “averting a direct threat” to the mother’s life.

And this situation is far from exclusive to Pakistan: most of the countries with no restrictions on women serving in frontline combat roles are in Europe or the Anglosphere (the exceptions are Eritrea, Israel, and North Korea).

While this was happening, the European counterparts of America's managers, with a few exceptions, have either been busy reconciling the demands of their “hard core” shareholders – composite groups of stakeholders, rarely united by common interests – or sought to secure government assistance and protection against international competition.

Reagan’s failure to reappoint Volcker and Jimmy Carter’s failure to reappoint Arthur Burns are the main exceptions.

But economic policies are set at the national level, and, with a few notable exceptions like trade negotiations and the tracking of terrorist funding and money laundering, policymakers set goals with a view to benefiting the domestic economy.

Exceptions and exemptions will be removed.

There will surely be exceptions to this general trend, but there are some stable regional characteristics.

Some 41% of Italy’s population has only a basic education, a considerably higher share than in most other European countries (with the exceptions of Portugal, Malta, and Spain).

But, in large part – and with a few exceptions in Central and Eastern Europe – emerging-market economies improved their fiscal performance by reducing overall deficits, running large primary surpluses, lowering their stock of public debt-to-GDP ratios, and reducing the currency and maturity mismatches in their public debt.

With the exceptions of Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, every major power in the Middle East is a modern construct created largely by the British and the French.

Part of the answer is that economics is an inexact science, with exceptions to almost every pattern of behavior that economists take for granted.

With few exceptions (such as Australia and New Zealand), the vast majority of the world’s advanced economies are or will soon be in this category.

For example, Fed policymakers, with a few honorable exceptions, still insist that they did the best they could, considering the fiscal headwinds at the time.

But they are exceptions in an otherwise inflationless world.

Still, there are exceptions to Trump’s support for free-market policies.

But there are at least two exceptions to this suspicion.

Countries were required to undertake only limited trade liberalization, with plenty of exceptions for socially sensitive sectors (agriculture, textiles, services).

Meanwhile, with some exceptions – most notably Finland – Europe has slipped into riding in the peloton.

With few exceptions, demographers and epidemiologists have not applied their expertise to making rigorous, credible estimates of civilian mortality and morbidity.

And, if a debt crisis is near, exceptions will be found, waivers will be issued, and buyers for the additional debt will be lined up.

With few exceptions, such as Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the militarization of the “war on drugs” is also starkly evident.

With few exceptions, countries that focused on commodity exports performed dismally, whereas many resource-poor Asian countries raced ahead.

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